New Jersey State Payroll - Every State Employee Payment

Every payment the State of New Jersey made to its own workforce, straight from the State's payroll register. 2.84 million rows - about two per employee per reporting year (a salary record and a payments record) - from calendar 2010 through the latest reporting year.

Low cost

From $0.00005 per record, down to $0.00003 at Gold. Pay only for the records you actually receive - the whole register stays queryable, you are never billed for the scan behind it.

What you get

One row per employee (an annual snapshot), with the pay attached to it:

• Who - employee name (last, first, middle initial), and the payroll id
• Where - the employing department/agency and the section inside it
• What job - the job title and the employee-relations (bargaining) group
• How paid - annual salary, hourly, part-time or per-diem
• How much - the paid amounts broken down by type: regular pay, overtime, supplemental, one-time, retroactive, lump sum, and clothing

Two record types, one register

The State publishes each employee in two rows, and the two carry different money columns:

• recordType: "MASTER" - the salary rate (salaryHourlyRate), the original hire date (present on ~5% of MASTER rows), and the year-to-date totals (masterYtdRegularPay, masterYtdOvertime, masterYtdOther, masterYtdEarnings).
• recordType: "DETAIL" - the amounts paid in the reporting period, broken out by type (regularPay, overtimePayments, retroactivePay, lumpSumPay, ) and the year-to-date ytdEarnings.

Neither row shows the whole picture on its own - that is how the State publishes it. Both are returned by default; set recordType to read one. A row leaves the other type's fields empty rather than dropping the keys, so the shape never changes under you.

Filter it

• Name - lastName="Smith", or fullName="Smith, John".
• Agency and section - department="Corrections", section="State Police".
• Job - title="Trooper", title="Nurse". 44 named agencies, 280 sections and 40 bargaining groups in total.
• Record type - MASTER or DETAIL (see above).
• Year - calendarYear=2025. 2010-2026 are present.
• Amount - minAmount=100000 for six-figure year-to-date earnings.
• Date range and last-N-days on the snapshot date.

Example inputs

One employee by name - lastName is a substring match.

{ "lastName": "SMITH", "recordType": "DETAIL", "maxResults": 25 }

One agency's payroll - combine the agency with a job title.

{ "department": "CORRECTIONS", "title": "OFFICER", "maxResults": 50 }

Top earners this year - year-to-date earnings at or above a threshold.

{ "calendarYear": 2026, "minAmount": 150000, "maxResults": 50 }

Where the payroll is - mode=aggregate returns one count row per agency; every group comes back.

{ "mode": "aggregate", "groupBy": "department" }

Or roll it up

Set mode=aggregate and get a rolled-up count by department, section, bargaining group, compensation method, calendar year or record type. Every group comes back - this mode is not cut off by maxResults.

Then follow the money

• Headcount and payroll size by agency, and how they move year over year.
• Every person the State has paid, and what they earned in each reporting year.
• Overtime vs. regular pay by agency or bargaining unit.
• The public payroll of one agency or one job title, line by line.

Example output

One detail row - department=CORRECTIONS, recordType=DETAIL:

{
 "platform": "nj-payroll",
 "source": "new-jersey-state-payroll",
 "mode": "rows",
 "groupKey": "",
 "groupCount": "",
 "groupBy": "",
 "calendarYear": "2026",
 "calendarQuarter": "2",
 "asOfDate": "2026-06-30T00:00:00.000",
 "payrollId": "231480",
 "lastName": "COOPER",
 "firstName": "RUSSELL",
 "middleInitial": "S",
 "fullName": "COOPER, RUSSELL S",
 "masterDepartment": "CORRECTIONS",
 "masterSection": "BAYSIDE STATE PRISON",
 "masterTitle": "STRKPR 2",
 "bargainingGroup": "ADMINISTRATIVE AND CLERICAL SERVICES (CWA) - UNIT A",
 "compensationMethod": "ANNUAL SALARY",
 "regularPay": "11199.65",
 "supplementalPay": "0",
 "oneTimePayments": "0",
 "ytdEarnings": "11199.65",
 "recordType": "DETAIL",
 "sourceUpdatedAt": "2026-08-28"
}

mode=aggregate, groupBy=department - one count row per agency:

HUMAN SERVICES                  408,968
JUDICIARY                       352,296
CORRECTIONS                     307,183
LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY           267,418
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES           249,243
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION        177,273

Notes on the data, from the source

• Two rows per employee per year, not one. See the record-type section above: a MASTER row and a DETAIL row, with non-overlapping money columns.
• The register is effectively annual - the State publishes one snapshot per reporting year (the current year is a partial snapshot). The newest data can be up to a year behind. sourceUpdatedAt carries the dataset's own refresh date.
• A few rows carry adjustments. 17 of the 2.84 million rows are negative (the lowest is -$43,896.87) - real accounting entries, returned as they stand. Set minAmount=0.01 for a positive-only query.
• 23,706 rows carry no department. The State writes the literal string "null" there; it is returned as empty, not as an agency named "null".
• Job titles and sections are free text as the State types them, so a substring match is the right way to search them.